New Delhi. A record-breaking match was played in IPL 2024 on Monday. There was a storm of runs in this match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Such rain of fours and sixes was never seen before. Not only in IPL but in T20 cricket, before this so many runs had not been scored in a match. This storm of runs can be gauged from the fact that despite scoring 262 runs, the Royal Challengers Bangalore team lost the match by 25 runs.
Virat Kohli’s team Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and chose to bowl first at their home ground Chinnaswamy Stadium on Monday. It was like a lottery for the batsmen of Sunrisers Hyderabad to bat first. He scored a lot of runs. The havoc of Hyderabad’s batsmen can be gauged from the fact that for the first time in T20 cricket, it was seen that not one or two, but four bowlers of any team gave away more than 50 runs in a single match.
Highest score of IPL
When Sunrisers Hyderabad’s innings stopped after 20 overs, the score on the score board was 287 runs for 3 wickets. This was the biggest score of any team in 17 years of IPL. Earlier this record was 277 runs for 3 wickets, which was made by Sunrisers Hyderabad against Mumbai Indians.
Fastest century for Hyderabad
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Australian opener Travis Head played an innings of 102 runs in 41 balls in this match. He completed his century on the 39th ball. This is the fastest century by any batsman of Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Most runs in a match
Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 267 runs for 7 wickets in reply to Sunrisers Hyderabad’s 287 runs. In this way he had to face defeat by 25 runs. In this victory of Hyderabad and defeat of Bengaluru, a record of the highest score in a T20 match was also created. A total of 549 runs were scored in this match. This is the highest number of runs in both innings of any T20 match including IPL.
Most sixes in an innings
Sunrisers Hyderabad batsmen hit 22 sixes against Royal Challengers Bangalore. This is the record of most sixes in a single innings in IPL. Bengaluru team also hit 6 sixes in reply. In this way, a total of 38 sixes were hit in the match. This is the record of most sixes in a match in IPL. Before this, it has happened only once that 38 sixes were hit in a single match (Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians).
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FIRST PUBLISHED: April 16, 2024, 06:59 IST